Jabbarov v. Bush

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, ordinarily, for a petitioner to “fairly present” federal claims to a state court, the federal issues must be clearly identified in the state court brief
• holding that a petition must “have alerted the court to the alleged federal nature of the claim” (emphasis added)
• holding that a prisoner must present his or her claim in “a petition or a brief (or a similar document)” in order to exhaust
• holding that a federal claim is “fairly presented” to the state court when the petitioner includes it in a petition or brief before that court
• holding that to be fairly presented, a claim must include 5 a statement of the operative facts and the specific federal legal theory
• holding that a prisoner must present his or her claim in “a petition or a brief (or a similar document)” in order to exhaust

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).